Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Thai sample book :

Authors

• Buell, William P

Other related names

• Atkinson, William M. 1796-1849, addressee

Call number

Ms. Coll. 990 Item 30 Item 30
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9979373401503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1428279706

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Thai

Origin

Date

between 1840 and 1844

Place

Thailand

Summary

Pedagogical manuscript compiled by the missionary William P. Buell for Presbyterian minister William M. Atkinson, including material on the Thai alphabet and combinations of Thai consonants and vowels (f. 4r-14r); Matthew 19:16-26 in Thai with spaces between words to assist a beginning reader (f. 18v-21v); and excerpts from Sunthon Phu’s verse travelogue Nirat Phra Bat (f. 46v-52v) and the epic poem Khun Chang Khun Phaen (f. 53v-55v), given as examples of Thai scribbled handwriting (tua wat), referred to by Buell in the manuscript as tua wat and shorthand (f. 45v). (Peera Panarut)

Notes

• Written in 4 lines per leaf.
   
• Written between 1840 and 1844, the years that William Buell and Seignoria Buell were married missionaries in Thailand.
   
• Folios black, with Thai and English text in yellow ink; folded concertina- or accordion-style.
   
• A detailed description of this manuscript by Dr. Peera Panarut is on file at the library.
   
• Some folds between segments are brittle; the fold between f. 10r and f. 11r is mostly broken.
   

Extent

1 item (56 segments) : 11 x 35 cm

Support

Paper

Provenance

• Compiled by William P. Buell for William M. Atkinson, Winchester, Virginia (note in yellow ink, f. 2r), not after 1844.
   
• Gift of the Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia, 2020.
   

Subjects topical

• Thai language--Study and teaching
• Thai language--Writing
• Missionaries--Thailand

Genres

• accordion books
• Manuscripts, Thai--19th century
• Manuscripts--Thailand--19th century

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r-2r — [Ownership note, W. P. Buell to W. M. Atkinson]
• fol. 3r-4r — The Siamese Alphabet
• fol. 5r-6r — [Combinations of consonants and vowels]
• fol. 17v-18v — Matthew 19:11-26
• fol. 43v-44v — [Nirat Phra Bat excerpt, tua wat script]
• fol. 53v-54v — [Khun Chang Khun Phaen excerpt, tua wat script]